RECOLLECTIONS Of A LIFETIME, Or Men and Things I Have Seen: In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend, Historical, Biographical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive.
New York: Miller Orton & Co., 1857. Early printing, 1st published in 1856. 2 volumes. Frontis in Volume I; plates. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth bindings with gilt stamping. General wear to binding cloth. Foxing. Lacks Vol I rfep. An About VG set. Item #52120
Goodrich, "better known by his pseudonym Peter Parley, was an American author and politician who established the children's magazine Merry's Museum. Goodrich's Peter Parley publications began in 1827, embracing geography, biography, history, science and miscellaneous tales. Of these he was the sole author of only a few, but in 1856 he published Recollections of a Lifetime, which contains both a list of the works of which he was the author or editor and of the spurious works published under his name, in total listing about 170 volumes from his pen, and claiming that about seven million copies had been sold." [Wiki].
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